Monday, April 26, 2010

Where Bloggers Create 2010

The Permanent Link list is up and ready to go! You can visit the list of party goers by clicking HERE!!

I cannot believe that almost a year has gone by since I made the announcement for the first Where Bloggers Create party. So many wonderful things have happened since that party. I have made some amazing new friends, there is a story about me, and the first Where Bloggers Create party in the current issue of Where Women Create magazine (I still can’t believe it), I got laid off from my job and decided to use my love of creativity and blogging to start my own Blog Design business and thanks to the amazing women in Blogland, has so far been very successful. I believe the catalyst for all of this was last years party. I got so much fabulous feedback from all of you, I knew this would become a yearly event. And so I would like to announce the2nd Annual Where Bloggers Create party- June 19th, 2010!!!! It’s time again to share your creative spaces!!!

Is your space at the dining room table? Do you have a room of your own? Have you converted a closet? And what do you do in there? What kind of things do you create?

This year is special because Jo Packham and Where Women Create magazine is offering some fabulous prizes!

The first prize is your own feature in Where Women Create magazine! (How cool is that?) Jo Packham herself will pick the winner and boy is it ever a fun experience!

Then we will be offering to 6 random party goers,
2- 1 year subscriptions to Where Women Create magazine
2 -Sets of Jo’s books Where Women Create and The Book of Inspiration
2-WWC charm bracelets

So this is how it will work. If you want to participate leave me a comment on this post. I will add your name to the list of participants on my sidebar. On the night before the party, post your photos and stories about yourselves and your art. (This assures that the early risers or those bloggers in other parts of the world can see your post on time.) We all love lots of pictures so don’t be shy!!!! On the day of the party we will all meet here and you can spend the whole weekend blog hopping to visit everyone’s blogs and get a peak inside all the very wonderful and creative studios!!It doesn’t matter if your space is big or small, it’s yours and that makes it special!!!

This year I have set up a separate blog to house all the links for a whole year, so don’t worry if you can’t visit them all in a week or two. After they hang out on my blog for a while I will move them all to my Where Bloggers Create blog so you can visit them anytime you want to!!!

I have one favor to ask.... Please help me spread the word!! I have created a button for everyone to grab and put on their blog. And if you would like to help further please do a post about the party as well. The more folks who know about the party, the more fun we will all have!!!!

I hope to see you all there!!!!

(Cut off for signing up will be Friday June 11th so I have time get all the blogs linked up before the party.)

( A little reminder... I have had several girls leave comments that they want to participate, but their profiles are not available to see, or they don't have a blog listed in their profile. I can't sign you up if I can't find you... and I really want to!! So make sure there is a way for me to contact you! Thanks!)

Karen,I am soooo Excited! I've been fluffing since last July! :) What awesome prizes too! You've come a long way in a year girl! LisaPS I'm going to B&N tonight to try to find WWC, I wonder if it's out yet?

Hi Karen,Like I've told you countless times sweetie, I'll be there with bells on once again! Last year's event was so fun to see everyone's creative spaces and make new friends. I will post about it on my blog too.

Woo hoo! Count me in girlfriend! I had a total blast visiting everyone last year and this year I have decorated Bunnyville a little more! So exciting and glad to be a part of such a great event!Hugs and Friends,Michelle

Hi Karen:It was so much fun to participate last year. Of course, you can count me in this year. Guess I'd better get to organizing the studio soon. So much planned and I'll need to get it finished!Thanks for the invitation. See you then! (and of course, you'll see me before then, too!)xoxoDonna

I remember visiting during last years Where Bloggers Create and am looking forward to visiting everyone's spaces! My little space in the garage would hardly be worth showing, but it serves me well at the moment.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but put me down. I always need a challenge to spur me on when it comes to cleaning and organizing. (you know, like my mother in law coming to visit!) My space isn't much, but I have fun in it! Love the button you created for the party. Very pretty!

Oh, Karen!!! When I joined your party fun last year (!!!) my fifth post was about where I create. I just did a give away for my 102nd post!!!!I feel so fortunate to have come so far in this year and to still be following your blog. I would LOVE, LOVE to participate again!! Yes, please!!! How fun. Thanks for doing this again!!xxoolynn

What excitement! You know I want in! I am so excited that your blog design business is doing so well. It's scarey, but isn't it fun fun to get to stay home and play and work with your OWN schedule! Congrats on your article.

I've done some makeovers in my space and want to share. I loved your party last year and want to view more creative spaces again. Those are some very cool prizes too! (Remember to rest your little self girl friend during all this excitement.)Your blog buddyLinda

Please, please, please count me in. Of course, I'll need some time to re-organise and tidy. I've just moved from three spaces around the house into a huge double garage and I love the extra space, just need to make it more 'user friendly'. LOL, I'm sure you know what I mean. Can't wait to see everbody else's creative spaces too. Woo Hoo, thanks for setting this up and keeping us organised.

Hi Karen -You know I am in Girl! Cannot wait! I had such a ball lat year - I can only IMAGINE how fun this year will be! I love snooping through people's creative spaces . . . it is so cool to see how everyone set things up.Thanks so much for hosting this again!HAGD! Karen - Some days are diamonds

Hello! I just hopped over from MyPetiteMaison and am so glad I did! This sounds like fun.. my space isn't magazine worthy but I'm going to join the party anyway! It sounds like lots of fun and full of inspiration. Theresa

Count me in! Fingers crossed that my new studio space will be done! A hearty congrats on all the good things that have come your way in the last year, I can't wait to see your article in the new issue of WWC. Being published for the first time is such a rush, enjoy it! I will post on the party in my post tomorrow as well as post the button and link on my sidebar.

Now I really am going to need your design services to get my blog whipped into shape! I'll be touch via email!

I will put the button on my side bar. Not sure I am ready to participate this year as I just finally have time to start cleaning up and organizing my space...but I loved visiting everyone's creative spaces last year and look forward to visiting all again this year!Perhaps I should host a party called, "Where hoarders stash"...:)

Good Morning Karen, I would love to join again, It was wonderful last year! I am in the middle of doing my studio again! I can't waitI have done a post on my Inn Country Blog.Have a beautiful day Lisa of Inn Country/Olive Grove primitives

How wonderful of you to host this awesome party again! Thank you for the opportunity to participate! I was just an observer last year, but I am so excited to be participating this year now that my studio has been completed!

Thanks also to Jo at WWC for her generous gifts!

I've posted about this at Just Bee 'n Me...I'm excited to help spread the word! It's gonna be a blast!!

Hi Karen, I met you through another blogger and you helped me get a "email" blinky on my blog. Now I found you here randomly. How cool is that. It is meant to be, so please count me in. Of course it will be a blast! Have a wonderful, creative day! God bless. cathy

Oh, how wonderful! I just got my own room this past year when one son got married, and this will motivate me to get it in shape by the 19th. I've been working on it, but then life keeps cropping up. Those prizes sound fabulous!! I am in!

I'm a HUGE fan of WWCreate! In fact I have a WWCreate give-a-way going on on my blog as we speak, he he. I have the entire collection of the mags and hardcovers and am currently working on my room...though I'm not sure I'd be ready for a reveal just yet:) I can't wait to see what other artists will share!

I found your blog today, gald I did, its really wonderful blog and the party sounds like such a great idea... I work from home (artist & illustrator)and my studio is not done yet, so I kind of travel around the house and came up with a portable studio... posted in my blog way back, so I will put it on there again.

This is so cool. I'm new to the blogging world and just started my own blog. I've been working on my studio space for a while, it will be nice to show it off. The prizes are great, maybe I'll be one of the lucky prize winners.

Dearest karen - I would love to participate in this fun and inspiring event! My little space is not extraordinary by any means - but it is mine, all mine - and I do love it so. Thanks for this opportunity and thanks again also for your creative assistance with my blog! You have changed my life in regards to my blogging experiences.

I will post your button on my sidebar later today - right now I am off to see my new grandbaby!

Oh yes, I definitely want to join the party. That was so awesome last year! Thank you for doing this, it really is fun and a good way to find new blogs. Marcymantle@piedmontcenter.comwww.queenmarcyoriginals.typepad.com

Karen,This will be great fun!Count me in, even though i know many will go into shock when they see my messy creative area. (it's the results of the creativity that counts, right?) =)Although I must say, I am getting organized now, so who knows what it will look like in a month or so!

I have to beg out..but what a great idea..I want ideas on storage for my craft stuff...we made major move so my room is a huge mess. We had a fire scare the other day..door bell jammed and we had burnt wires smell..scarey..then there is my room with a huge bomb went off. I was afraid the fire dept was going to see it.. I then decided this weekend it has to be cleaned up and sorted..I paint as you know then now Im scrapebooking...oh what more messes...I dont know where to start to organize it..but maybe next year to join..my room looks almost like the hoarders on TV. Sally

I can't believe it's almost been a year since the last party!! This is my all time favorite blog party ... seriously, it brings the peeping Tom out in me .. I love checking out everyone's space .... count me in for round two ... and thank you Karen, you're doing an excellent job!!

Hi Karen,I'm excited to participate! This is my first year blogging and I can't wait to meet everyone and become a part of this wonderful party.I will spread the word and I can't wait for the fun to begin!

This sounds amazing! I just met Jo last weekend at Petticoats and Parasols in Savannah, GA. She is an amazing woman! I also met your friend Charlene from Texas and she told me all about you. Please count me in! My blog is www.gibbysgirl.com

Can't wait to see everyone's spaces. This will give me a great reason to get mine into shape. It looks a little like that show "Hoarders." Yipes!

Hugs to YouNicole Gibson-Rice

PS: I live in Apache Junction.PPS: To post a comment, I have to use my LiveJournal account, but it is no longer active. Just FYI. :D

I definitely don't have a space on the level of what is seen in Where Women Create, but it is now more than the dining room table!! I've graduated!!!LOL It'll be fun to see where and how others are inspired!!!

Hello...love your blog, Karen! I started a blog about a year ago (newbie) and I guess just my family & close friends visit...I'm looking to reach out into blog world...visit more blogs and have more bloggers visit me...I make cards...have a wonderful dog BEAR...and am that one in a million person who got Guillain Barre Syndrome from getting a flu shot...count me in...and thanks!

I am so excited to hear you will be having this event again. Congrats on the huge success. I loved last years journey and will be joining in this year as well. Thanks for all of your hard work and the wealth of info that you bring to us all, not to mention the friends made! xoxo Rhonda...

Hi Karen,I was just browsing the comments to see if I already left a comment, but I didn't find one. So, please include me in your list. I just can't wait, i participated before and found so many wonderful blogs, and so much inspiration. Thank you for hosting this fun event.Karen

I bought my copy last night at Borders. OMG!!! I'm so HAPPY for you and love seeing you and your beautiful studio in the book. I'm a lucky girl to have met you a year ago. My studio is still packed in boxes. I better make it pretty before the party.

I want you to count me in. Last year I tried to look at all of the links. That is when my wheels started turning and I was tempted to start blogging. I started my blog a couple of months ago and want to join this years party. I will take a link and blog about it soon.

I would love to participate in this event this year. I have just about finished some changes to my studio and have been holding off showing it yet so that I can save it for your party. Please add me to your list. :)Cerri

Hi Karen....I had to stop and get a snack the list was so long before I got to the box for comments ;) Last year was so much fun, so please include me again this year. What a wonderful venue for sharing and what generous prizes.....all because of you. Thank you for hosting. I'll grab your button now and post soon.jana

Hi KAren, glad to hear that youre hosting this blog party again as I missed it last year! I would love to join in the fun.so please add me to your list and I will write it on my calander right now!thanks!vivian

I was in last year and it was my favorite party of the year........I hope to have a whole new space and be in it for the party in June. This is such exciting news!!!! I can't wait!!!!! I love looking at everyone elses spaces too. Count me in PLEASE!!!!!!

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